And if you’re somewhat in between — you don’t mind getting out of bed but you don’t exactly want to get mixed up in nature — then find an excuse to go inside the Wellesley College Science Center, which is something of a natural history museum as well (the public is welcome to visit the library there, but isn’t encouraged to randomly roam the halls of the school building, where hundreds of students and faculty are working).

The library itself features some very cool stuffed birds, and the walls of the hallways on the way to the library include glass cases with birds from Wellesley and the surrounding area. There’s even a penguin, and some non-birds, like a Koala and Buffalo head.

We paid a visit to the Science Center a couple of months back and found the insides of the building — which actually comprises four buildings — worth a look. One interesting observation is that many of the objects in glass cases are numbered, so that they can be packed away and then kept track of when the building undergoes a big renovation starting in 2017 as part of Wellesley College’s campus-wide renewal program.